She says its pretty unlikely that he'll actually go to jail but this sentence means he can't run for any public office for 3 years which keeps him out of running for the President of the republic. She and the other Italians I work with are well chuffed right now.

*Just saying "thrown in jail" is a bit melodramatic
*And the thing about being the most powerful man in the country is you can shrug off any amount of prosecutions. It seems now he's not top dog he's not as bulletproof as he used to be. Not that he'll end up in jail all the same. This isn't exactly the first time he's been found guilty of a crime.

who has a history of changing laws that he's being prosecuted under *whilst on trial.* It's not just 'biased prosecutors' who raised an eyebrow at that.

Also 'non-normal' is a very nice way of describing his lifestyle. Though a lot of that is admittedly (very loud) hearsay. Let's see how his other more salacious trial goes on that one. Assuming you'd trust any verdict against him.

I genuinely never thought I'd see anyone defending a man as corrupt, inept, sleazy, hypocritical and economically destructive as Berlusconi, but as soon as a target of lefty ire gets taken down they take it upon themselves to defend his (non-existent) honour. He's like GW Bush - damn the world and all its inhabitants if I fuck everything up, at least we made some money and had a good time.